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BRENTWOOD — Republican Kevin Mottus is one of eighteen candidates, and three Republicans, listed on the ballot for the June 3 primary to replace retiring Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman in California’s 33rd congressional district. Mottus’s focus throughout the campaign has

Early in the primary race, Breitbart California issued a challenge to each of the 18 contenders for the 33rd congressional district seat currently held by retiring Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman: summarize your candidacy in 100 tweetable characters or less. The

Breitbart News had the opportunity to speak with Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ The Long War Journal, about the ongoing debacle over the exchange of five senior Taliban commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Roggio has

House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) will hold hearings on the prisoner swap of five Taliban detainees for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, McKeon announced Monday.  “Now my perception is he [Obama] broke the law by not informing Congress 30

Judicial Watch has a long history of protecting whistleblowers, the brave government insiders who expose corruption, incompetence, and abuse of power inside the federal government. Often these individuals are subjected to all manner of retaliation and abuse in order to

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned the Obama administration after the announcement of negotiations that resulted in the release of five Taliban terrorists for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner of war. Cruz indicated that he was happy that

Thanks to the scandals and missteps at the Veterans Administration and elsewhere in the federal bureaucracy, President Obama is losing all credibility as a manager and leader. Many Americans are justifiably enraged or at least awfully frustrated by federal government

If we use the terrorists’ methods, the old canard goes, we become just as bad as they are–or worse. Well, the Taliban and Al Qaeda live in a lawless society dominated by strongmen–and now, increasingly, so do we. Empathy aside,

Revelations of secret waiting lists at VA hospitals and veterans’ struggles to get medical care have received national attention in recent weeks. This scandal, however, is just the highest-profile example of the consequences of government encroaching further into our lives.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been a prominent supporter of granting amnesty to the children of illegal immigrants and awarding more high-tech visas. Yet ten days before his primary against Dave Brat, his positions on those issues are

During a June 1 appearance on Meet the Press, Michael Bloomberg said his efforts for more gun laws in the wake of Santa Barbara have “nothing to do [with] gun control.” He simultaneously affirmed his hope that Elliot Rodger’s stabbing

Silicon Valley attorney Rich Robinson is working on Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith’s (R) re-election campaign and simultaneously pushing for a “repeal” of the Second Amendment. Prior to working with Smith’s re-election, Robinson worked with Barack Obama (D), John

Iowa State Senator Brad Zaun (R-Urbandale) is in the primary race for U.S. Congress and says he often carries “a 9mm handgun” with him because of the attack on Gabrielle Giffords. He said he even carries the gun to the

Republican Congressional candidate Vanila Singh appears to be receiving help from an unlikely source: Democrats. Working for Us PAC has been spending its resources on both promoting Singh and attacking her Democratic rival Ro Khanna in the race for Democratic

On Friday, failed 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said it wasn’t healthy that Congress has not passed amnesty legislation that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers. Romney said he was not for a

Keeping illegal immigrants “in the shadows in this nation,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told a group at Harvard University last month, is “a stain on America’s honor.” Put aside the fact that these people do not live in the shadows

On May 19 Breitbart News reported that banks were cutting ties with firearm and ammunition manufacturers and retailers because of pressure being brought to bear on financial institutions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) via “Operation Choke Point.”  Since then,

Two years ago, in California’s 7th congressional district–located east and south of Sacramento–incumbent Republican Dan Lungren lost to Democrat physician Ami Bera by 5,696 votes. In 2012, President Barack Obama also swept this state by 21 points. Since then, Rep.

President Obama, Chuck Schumer and Luis Gutierrez are warning the GOP Obama will enact unilateral amnesty if the House doesn’t pass immigration legislation before August, and the Capitol is full of intrigue and discussions about what might take place.  But

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) provided a new explanation for his refusal to debate his primary challenger that is sure to give fodder to critics who say that after six terms he feels entitled to his seat. “This

On Thursday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said House Republicans can’t use the excuse that they don’t trust President Barack Obama to enforce the country’s immigration laws to block amnesty legislation. He then gave Republicans more reasons to distrust Obama by

The New York Times believes it is “ridiculous” that President Barack Obama instructed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to delay the administration’s deportation review. “There is something ridiculous about the president’s fear of halting a legislative process that has been

JACKSON, Mississippi — The D.C. government is investigating whether Kay Webber, a longtime aide to Sen. Thad Cochran, properly registered her house for commercial uses, including renting out a basement apartment that Cochran lives in. Webber rents the apartment to

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson was in the hot seat Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee, answering to the release of thousands of criminal aliens back into the United States.  “The end result of DHS’s practices is that

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on better funding for the mental illness data sharing in background checks that was supported by the NRA in 2007. On May 26 Breitbart News reported that the NRA supported the

One big-city California mayor won big, and another lost. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was the winner, while San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was the loser. Garcetti got his wish: on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports, the U.S. Army Corps

On May 28 Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Democrats “may offer” gun control amendments to the Commerce, Justice, Science spending bill this week in response to Elliot Rodger’s Santa Barbara attacks. Rodger stabbed three people to death in a

Fifty-nine members of Congress, led by Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore, are calling on Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson to halt immigration enforcement actions at courthouses. “We ask that DHS issue new department-wide guidance that ensures that courts–like

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a victim of gun violence, has stepped up calls for Congress to take “immediate action” on gun control. This comes in the wake of this past weekend’s mass shootings targeting women and leaving six University of California,

Type “Obamacare rollout disaster” into the Google search engine, and you get approximately 290,000 results, most of them dating back to the days immediately following the catastrophic October 2013 launch of Healthcare.gov.  Significantly, however, the most recent results focus on

Political figures are calling for further investigation into the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal – even though President Obama and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki have vowed to investigate the allegations on their own. Shinseki has tasked the Veterans Affairs Inspector

For months, top Democrats have been threatening House Republicans: if you don’t act on immigration, President Obama will with the “stroke of a pen.” It’s a threat that House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte doesn’t appreciate, and now the top Obama